CA2166217C - Case-storage device - Google Patents

Case-storage device

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CA2166217C
CA2166217C CA002166217A CA2166217A CA2166217C CA 2166217 C CA2166217 C CA 2166217C CA 002166217 A CA002166217 A CA 002166217A CA 2166217 A CA2166217 A CA 2166217A CA 2166217 C CA2166217 C CA 2166217C
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Alfred Reinhard
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G11INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11BINFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B33/00Constructional parts, details or accessories not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G11B33/02Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon
    • G11B33/04Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon modified to store record carriers
    • G11B33/0405Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon modified to store record carriers for storing discs

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  • Packaging For Recording Disks (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
  • Assembled Shelves (AREA)
  • Automatic Disk Changers (AREA)
  • Warehouses Or Storage Devices (AREA)
  • Centrifugal Separators (AREA)
  • Vending Machines For Individual Products (AREA)
  • Automatic Tape Cassette Changers (AREA)

Abstract

The case-storage device, in particular for storing CD cases, comprises a plurality of identical bar components (1) with plug-in connection means in the form of bores (5) and pins (1) at the flat end regions of the bar elements for connecting the latter in a staggered manner to form a composite wall. The bar elements (1) are preferably arranged in a rack-like manner with in each case two bar elements (1) disposed in pairs transversely above two subjacent bar elements (l) in a multi-layered, superimposed arrangement, forming a tower-like rack (10). This rack (10) has insertion compartments (11) formed by the gaps, each compartment accommodating a case (9) between superimposed bar elements (1). In the centre of the stepped, inner longitudinal side (6), each bar element comprises a stop (7), formed by the step, for delimiting the insertion path of the cases to be pushed in from opposite sides. By virtue of these bars, the rack can be of any height so as to make optimum use of the space available.

Description

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Device for the storage of cassettes The invention relates to a device for the storage of cassettes, specifically CD-cassettes, for a contactless individual retrieval. Devices of this kind are known in quite differing designs, consisting for instance of a column-like structure of metal comprising a plurality of supporting ledges connected to each other, of cases with drawers, of single receptacles which can be swung out, or of special profiled ledges for a standing arranging of cassettes. For a large number of cassettes they are designed either too high or then not stable or as a box taking up a large volume of space. If one wants to place them into a bookshelf one has often difficulties regarding space in the height or width or one must leave a lot of space not utilized due to the dimensions of the shelf.
The invention was based on the object to provide a device for the storage of cassettes, specifically of CD-cassettes, which every user can assemble by himself tailoredindividually to the conditions of the space in his premises, for instance in a shelf, and which allows a storing of more cassettes in a given space volume than known devices and which additionally is low in price.
In accordance with the invention, this objet is achieved with a storage device for cassettes which comprises:
- a plurality of bar elements, each bar element defining opposite ends and connection means near each of said opposite ends to interconnect with a connection means of an adjacent bar element, said plurality of bar elements being interconnected by said connection means to provide vertically-spaced, generally rectangular compartments into which said cassettes can be slid for storage.
The device posesses the advantage that it is possible to assemble with the single elements a device of any arbitrary height for the storing of cassettes lying planarly on top of ~.A ~

2 ~ ~ ~ 7 la top of each other, and that the individual element can be bought later in a necessary number. Any differing shelf height ~,." ,~

_ 2166217 tools are needed for the assembling. Due to the high stability of the individual elements there also is no danger that such as in case of known devices consisting of a plastic material they can no longer function due to a damaging thereof.
An embodiment of the invention will hereinafter be explained closer based on the drawings. There is shown in :
Fig. 1 a bar element in a perspective view from above ;
Fig. 2 the bar element of Fig. 1 in a perspective view fram below ;
Fig. 3 a section through the bar element accor-ding to line 1-1 in Fig. 1 ;
Fig. 4 a turntable for a rack of bar elements to be assembled thereon ;
Fig. S a deck. consisting of four bar elements which can be assembled by a plug-in coupling, which can be enlarsed upwards and which is assembled on a turntable, in a perspective view ;
Fig. 6 the tower like rack consisting of bar ele-ments, in a perspective view ;
Fig. 7 and Fig. 7a front view and top view of an embodiment of the rack in form of a several times angu-lated wall of bar elements ;
Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 front view and vertical section through an intermediate piece necessary for the assembling of a bar element rack according to Fig. 7 ;
Fig. 10 a modified embodiment of the bar element in a perspective view from above ;

_ ~ 3 ~ 216 ~2~17 Fig. 11 the bar element of Fig. 10 in a perspective view from below ;
Fig. 12 a section through the bar element according to line 3-3 in Fig. 10 ;
Fig. 13 a cut-out of a rack corner of bar elements with oblique slots for cassettes ;
Fig. 14 a side view of a tower shaped rack of bar elements according to Fig. 10, with a rack window for cas-settes to be stored upright.

21B~17 The bar element 1 according to Fig. 1 is a substan-tially square shaped elongate body with a planar upper si-de 2 and a planar bottom side 3. In the two end areas of the bar element projecting pins or studs 4 are formed at the upper side 2 and at the bottom side 3 round bores 5 aligned axially therewith, into which studs of a bar ele-ment located beneath engage with a snug fit such to form a firm plug connection.
Pins and bores are produced simultaneously with the production of the bar element of a plastic material, pre-ferably with a injection molding method. During the pro-duction a step 7 is formed, furthermore, at the inner nar-row side 6 in the center, which acts as abutment for the limiting of the sliding-in path of a cassette, of which two can be slid in at each deck from two opposite sides such as illustrated in Fig. 6 by broken lines. Fig. 5 discloses that respective two identical bar elements 1 are placed in a frame-like arrangement transverse over two bar elements 1 located below and interconnected by means of the plug-in connection by pins 4 and bores S and form on the turntable 8 illustrated alone in Fig. 4 moun-ted thereon according to the same principle by means of pins 4 located thereon a slide-in deck of a rack 10 as shown in Fig. 6 consisting of a plurality of identical decks placed on top of each other. Two cassettes 9 il-lustrated by broken lines are slid from opposite sides into such a deck up to the abutment 7. The cassette is thereby held between bar elements 1 of subsequent decks arranged over each other because the hight of the bar element 1 amounts to a little more than the hight of the cassette 9. In the deck following the first deck in the upwards direction the cassettes are slid in from a direc-21B~217 tion of the deck next below. Accordingly, slid-in com-partments 11 are present in a rack 10 according to ~ig. 6 between every two respective bar elements arranged above each other. Due to this structure it follows that each bar element in the tower like rack 10 having a square base outline forms a cassette supporting surface and si-multaneously one of two lateral limiting surfaces for the regarding hight adjacent lower slide-in compartment 11 arranged "at a right angle".

In order to facilitate the sliding-in of the cassette between two bar members and to avoid a damaging, the outer longitudinal side 12 of each bar member 1 is designed roun-ded off in accordance with the cross-sectional view of Fig.
3, such that the cassette is guided easyly into the slide-in compartment. Because slide-in compartments 11 are pre-sent at all four sides of the tower like rack 10, the rack is mounted on the turntable 8 such that all sides of the rack are conveniently accessible.

Besides a tower like rack which is square in plan view it is also possible to form by means of the bar ele-ments 1 an arbitrarily differently shaped rack 14 accor-ding to Fig. 7 and 7a filling out a shelf of a furniture in its width, which then, however, is no longer accessible from all sides. Here, the bar elements 1 set upon each other form a wall which is alternately oppositely angled at the plug-in locations 4, 5 which then has a zig-zag shape and has for instance in front of a wall of a shelf such a distance that the cassettes slid in between the bar elements touch the wall of the shelf as abutment in order not to be pushed through at the rear . The cas-settes are held only by the lower and upper bar element.

2i66217 At the ends of the wall the bar elements 1 are in-terconnected by short intermediate pieces 15 having pin and bore and set inbetween two respective bar elements 1.
There are a great many possibilities of shaping a rack of this kind.

The assembling of a rack 10 according to Fig. 6 proceeds by exclusively identical bar elements 1, thus there are no single right and left,elements which allows an economical production. This building kit system allows specifically to produce a rack with any arbitrary hight adjusted to the prevailing space conditions such as for in-stance in a shelf extremely economiDally by oneself. A not illustrated cover is placed onto the uppermost deck of bar elements, which is designed such as the turntable 8 but includes bores instead of pins.

A modified embodiment of the bar element is illustra-ted in Fig. 10 to Fig. 12. This bar element 1a includes a continuous slot 17 extending from the outside, from the upper side 2 obliquely, preferably at an angle of 45~
downwards towards the lower side and having an inside width of a cassette 9 intended for a obliquely standing storing in the slot 17. The arrangement of the oblique cassettes is disclosed in Fig. 13 which illustrates cut-out wise a vertical section through one side of a tower like rack 10 formed by the bar elements 1a.

This bar element 1a includes, furthermore, gro~ve shaped recesses 16 extending transversely at same distan-ces in the upper side 2 and the lower side 3 for a sepa-rate guiding and lateral supporting of cassettes 9 which are placed for a upright standing storing between two bar ~ 7 ~ 2t66~17 elements 1a defining a window like recess in the rack 10 at the top and the bottom such as illustrated in the side view of a rack according to Fig. 14. The window like re-cess is formed by a deleting of bar elements at one side of the rack whilst the bar elements 1a at the sides of the rack extending perpendicularly thereto are inter-connected by intermediate pieces 15 according to Fig. 8 and 9. Fig.
14 illustrates all three different possibilities of storage modes of cassettes in the tower-like rack, i.e. the hori-zontally lying, the upright standing and the oblique arran-gement.

The abutment for the limiting of the sliding-in path of the cassettes to be stored horizontally is formed by a rib 18 projecting opposite of the inner narrow side 6.
The bar elements consisting of a plastic material are suitably coloured differently, for instance red, yellow, blue, etc. such that the user can assemble a rack for a fast optical detecting and as desired with differently co-loured sides such as e.g. a red side for cassettes with lisht music, a green side for cassettes with classical music, etc. The bar elements can consist, however, also of wood or another suitable material. Furthermore, a not illustrated small ledge frame can preferably be formed at the plastic material at a side of the bar element facing towards the outside for receipt of an exchangeable identi-fication plate.

The bar elements which consist of a plastic material have no sharp edges which often cause a danger of injury at plastic articles, for which reason the cassettes can not be scratched, and due to the plastic material the rac!~ has a low weight.

2~G~2~7 For cassettes which are larger in hight, containing two CD-disks also called album, the slide-in compartment 11 must be somewhat higher for which reason two separate planar intermediate discs, similar to the intermediate pieces 15 can be inserted at the area of the pins 4 bet-ween two bar elements 1, which is not illustrated. 'Thus, one is not restricted to a size of a cassette. The term cassette is appl'cable generally besides music discs also e.g. for CD-RO'M discs.

With a corresponding different dimensioning of the bar elements this building kit system can obviously be also used for smaller tape record cassettes such as also discettes or for other square shaped bodies having the same size.

Claims (15)

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A storage device for cassettes which comprises:
- a plurality of bar elements, each bar element defining opposite ends and connection means near each of said opposite ends to interconnect with a connection means of an adjacent bar element, said plurality of bar elements being interconnected by said connection means to provide vertically-spaced, generally rectangular compartments into which said cassettes can be slid for storage.
2. A storage device according to claim 1, wherein each bar element defines opposite upper and lower flat sides, and wherein each said connection means near each opposite end of said bar element comprises a pin extending away from one of said upper and lower sides and a bore extending into a second of said upper and lower sides, each pin and bore of a connection means being axially aligned with one another.
3. A storage device according to claims 1 or 2, wherein each bar element comprises an obliquely angled, cassette-receiving slot extending from said upper side to said lower side.
4. A storage device according to claim 3, wherein said oblique angle is 45°.
5. A storage device according to claim 1, wherein four of said bar elements are interconnected to provide a rectangular deck and wherein a plurality of decks are mounted on one another to provide a tower rack.
6, A storage device according to claim 5, wherein each rectangular deck comprises first and second bar elements positioned in parallel and third and fourth transverse bar elements respectively connected to corresponding ends of said first and second bar elements, the tower rack providing slid-in compartments on four sides.
7. A storage device according to claim 6, wherein each bar element defines opposite inner and outer sides, said outer side being chamfered to facilitate sliding of said cassettes into said compartments.
8. A storage device according to claim 7, wherein said inner sides of said bar elements are stepped in their length dimension to provide a step for a cassette positioned in respective compartment.
9. A storage device according to claim 6, wherein the upper and lower sides of each bar element defines a plurality of equally spaced transverse grooves which enable cassettes to be vertically-positioned between two of said bar elements which are horizontally oriented above one another.
10. A storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein said plurality of bar elements are interconnected by said connection means to provide a zig-zag wall, and including connecting pieces having plug-in connection means interconnecting ends of adjacent bar elements at opposite free ends of said wall.
11. A storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein said bar elements are made of variously colored plastic.
12. A storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, including a rotating platform on which said bar elements are positioned.
13. A bar element for use in constructing a storage device for cassettes, said bar element comprising upper and lower flat sides and opposite ends, pins which extend away from one of said upper and lower flat sides near said opposite ends and bores which extend into another of said upper and lower sides near said opposite ends and so as to be axially aligned with respective pins.
14. A bar element according to claim 13, including an obliquely-angled, cassette-receiving slot which extends from said upper side to said lower side.
15. A bar element according to claims 13 or 14, including equally-spaced transverse grooves in said upper and lower sides to enable cassettes to be vertically positioned between two said bar elements when horizontally oriented above one another.
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